Acting Chief Executive Wong Sio Chak, who heads the government’s security portfolio, said yesterday the government was aware of the “great importance” of media development in the Greater Bay Area (GBA), pledging that the government will continue to support media exchanges, cooperation and innovation in the three-jurisdiction conurbation that comprises nine cities in Guangdong province and the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau.
Wong made the remarks in a speech on behalf of Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On who was unable to attend the First Media Summit of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau GBA in Guangzhou. Chui paid a working visit to Portugal last week.
Huang Kunming, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and head of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, called for more and better media coverage of the GBA. In his speech at the opening ceremony, Huang highlighted the role of the media in the development of the GBA and called for a favourable media environment to build a first-class international bay area.
Acting Chief Executive Wong Sio Chak addresses the First Media Summit of the GBA in Guangzhou. Photo: GCS
